MEGABOUNCE! CNN Reports Time Magazine Poll: Bush 52%, Kerry 41%, Nader 3%

Thanks for the many posted items of a wide variety of possible vote fraud. However, none of them responds to the only challenge I made: What precinct(s) in Philadelphia had 99% or 100% turnout of registered voters? Simply repeating other people's unsupported statements isn't proof.

You can easily go to the website of the COmmittee of Seventy, or its links, and see the Ward figures, showing no Ward with turnout over 65% or so, and most of the highest turnout wards being the more GOP ones (albeit not very GOP). You have to get in touch with the Philly clerk ofice to see individual precinct figures for the whole city (there is a site showing figures for the precincts where a "citizen's committee" targeted for increased turnout), and in neither case could I find any precinct coming even close to 90% turnout.

This doesn't mean that other evidence for fraud, in philly or elsewhere, doesn't exist, just that this widely trumpeted "fact" just isn't so.

in particular, registration in excess of 100% of adults is not a good thing, but it occurs in widely scattered areas (note that the GOP states of Alaska and Montana are the 2 STATES where this is true statewide). Every story I have seen that gives detailed figures shows that it happens throughout certain states, regardless of politics, generally due to a failure to purge promptly. Motor Voter has aggravated this, and provides OPPORTUNITY for fraud (by both sides), but doesn't prove it. In fact, generally, the couties with extremely high registration, compared to population, have low turnout as a percentage of registered, which is what you would expect, absent fraud.

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